We are so excited to tell you about a major victory that our supporters helped achieve. Yesterday at the UN Ocean Conference, the Colombian government announced it will create four new official marine reserves, including one expanding the fully protected Malpelo Sanctuary of Fauna and Flora. Colombia will now surpass the goal of protecting 30% of its waters eight years before the 2030 deadline! The initiative to protect 30% of the global ocean by the year 2030, referred to as 30x30, is a target that scientists have indicated is necessary in order to prevent irreversible loss of marine life. A huge thank you to everyone who made their voice heard on the petition to protect the Eastern Tropical Pacific marine corridor. And, of course, this win would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of Colombia’s environmental, fishing, and maritime authorities, along with scientists, the private fishing sector, nonprofits, and the people of Colombia. With this remarkable action, Colombia will strengthen local fisheries, sustainable livelihoods, and the protection of marine biodiversity in its native waters and throughout the Eastern Tropical Pacific marine corridor. If you’d like to move another campaign to create sanctuaries close to victory, consider adding your name to the brand-new petition to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument 🌎 ⛵️
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Share the appeal to ban bottom trawling in EU protected waters
Join us, and urge European leaders to take decisive action against bottom trawling in marine protected areas.
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The EU allows bottom trawling, the world's most destructive fishing practice, to occur in its protected seas.
But where is most of this underwater destruction taking place? A recent study of seven countries shows that Dutch MPAs are the most targeted, where bottom trawlers have indiscriminately scraped up the seafloor for a combined total of more than two million hours in less than ten years.
Explore the graphic — and once you’re sufficiently shocked and fired up, add your name to the link in bio to make a change and demand that the EU ban bottom trawling in protected areas.
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Bottom trawling involves dragging heavy nets — some hundreds of metres long and up to five tonnes — across fragile ocean seabeds, where they scrape away centuries-old reefs and destroy endangered marine life — and EU leaders are allowing this to happen.
Every day, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other animals are swept up and killed at random. If we want to truly protect Europe’s seas, then bottom trawling in protected areas must stop now.
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Imagine a giant net sweeps through your neighborhood, completely demolishing everything in its path — your home, gardens, mailboxes, neighbors, roads, cars... everything is gone.
This is what’s happening to fish, corals, and marine mammals in the EU’s “protected” waters. Bottom trawlers tear up the seafloor and indiscriminately kill millions of creatures, regardless of species.
Enough is enough. It’s time to demand that the EU ban bottom trawling in their not-actually-protected areas. Add your name in support at the link in our bio.
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Bottom trawlers are still allowed to destructively overfish in protected European seas, putting endangered marine species at grave risk. Join us and tell @VSinkevicius @vonderleyen to end this practice in the EU’s “protected” areas. #BanBottomTrawling https://only.one/bottom-trawling
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Bottom trawlers devastate "protected" EU waters. Nets as big as football pitches scrape away reefs and destroy marine life. Urge @VSinkevicius and @vonderleyen to take action now and truly protect the seas. #BanBottomTrawling https://only.one/bottom-trawling